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Prolonged protests put Reddit at crossroads with ad revenue (www.campaignasia.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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After two weeks of demonstrations, some media buyers anticipate Reddit turning to alternative revenue streams.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's just the way a large data gathering project works. If you want to get data from 100s of sites a scraper is universal and can work for all while using an API would require (assuming all the sites HAVE an API) custom code for each.